According the IGeLU Statute we have to renovate the IGeLU Steering Committee during the next IGeLU conference in Berlin and we have 2 vacant positions this year, since Peter Klien – Austrian Library Network & Services Ltd, Austria – [2011–2013] Mark Dehmlow – University of Notre Dame, USA – [2012–2013] are at the end of their office. The voting […]
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The conference will take place at the Free University Berlin, Germany, from Sunday, September 8th till Tuesday, September 10th 2013 APP now available We are proud to offer all attendants an APP for mobile use. The APP is available for both Apple and Android platforms. Please visit the Conference website using your mobile device. INUG september 7th Traditionally, […]
What libraries can do! Although libraries want the content they subscribe to be available for users in their preferred discovery services, some vendors unfortunately still don’t allow general discovery services to index this licensed content. To facilitate our users using rich (meta)data to discover the content we subscribe for them, IGeLU suggests always to include a clause in the content agreements with […]
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The preparations for the next IGeLU conference are well on the way. During its meeting in Berlin in March the Steering Committee visited the conference venue at the Free University Berlin and was impressed by the newly renovated Henry Ford Building, the centre of the university with its auditorium maximum with capacity of well over […]
Since the IGeLU 2012 conference in Zurich the Linked Open Data Special Interest Working Group has been very busy behind the scenes. Now is the time to come out in the open! What have we been up to? Our main activities were a direct outcome of the Zurich meeting with Ex Libris: revising the initial […]
This Spring we have been working on enhancing both the technology that supports the NERS system as well as the teams that provide support for the system. Active collaborative development on the system is under way and as our programmers become more familiar with the code structure, we should be ready soon to take user […]
The Rosetta User Group (RUG) was initiated on July 18, 2012, in Hanover, Germany. A significant part of the current Rosetta customers met to decide on how to organize their cooperation at present, taking into account that Rosetta is still a new product specifically designed to support organisations that have a mandate to ensure the […]
The Alma Product Working Group members have been active in several areas, including program planning, web presence and documentation, and in soliciting participation from the wider Alma community. Our program chairs are diligently working to provide us with engaging programs at both ELUNA and IGeLU. We will have product updates and open product working group […]
OvP Additional Functionality Ballot In response to inquiries from both the IGeLU Primo/Metalib Product Work Group and the ELUNA Primo Product Working Group (PWG) concerning necessary improvements to the OPAC via Primo (OvP) functionality in Primo, Ex Libris management recognized the need for a one-time special enhancements voting process to identify the areas of concern […]
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The 2012/2013 enhancements cycle was completed successful on February 12. In this cycle some changes were introduced in the enhancements procedure, we decided to bring only the top 15 enhancements from the first voting round to the final voting round, as agreed with the Aleph PWG Business meeting in Zurich. These 15 enhancements (having assigned […]